To all the dear friends of Matt Breaker Sheridan-
thank you for your good wishes and prayers. Especially to Pat for being there and giving every effort as a true friend to save his life.  
You have given me a gift of the sense of his spirit.  I live in Texas and could not visit Matt or his family often, so I feel I know him more now after reading your posting than I did before.  Our family  the Sheridans just gathered last weekend together to embrace one another and remember Matt (we called him Breaker), and his mother had a wonderful posterboard of pictures that one of his friends had made of him kayaking.  I am truly appreciative of the posting you have here to explain his final hours but also to give a sense of the life he lived and enjoyed.  I will remember him.  
Thank you, Melissa Hartig...